A semi-rigid plant container is formed of silicone to provide various semi-rigid, but resilient characteristics. The semi-rigid plant container includes abase having at least one drainage opening and a sidewall. The sidewall rises from the base and presents a top edge, an inner surface, and an outer surface. The inner surface of the sidewall and the base are configured to receive a plant growing media therein. The sidewall is formed substantially of silicone.

A system for cultivating plants or vegetables, includes a carrier for holding trays accommodating the plants or vegetables, the carrier having an interior formed by a bottom and raised edges extending circumferentially along the bottom to form a container for holding a liquid for cultivating plants or vegetables, and an opening arranged at the bottom; a frame to support the carrier; a supply duct for supplying the liquid towards the carrier, the supply duct arranged at least partly under the carrier; a sprayer device which is at one end fluidly connected to the supply duct and which is at the other provided with a nozzle to direct a flow of liquid to the interior of the carrier; wherein the sprayer device is arranged through the opening of the carrier, the nozzle protruding into the interior of the carrier when the carrier is positioned on the frame.

A hydroponic plant container configured to facilitate the hydroponic growing of a plant wherein the container is configured to provide access to the root ball and other elements disposed therein without engaging the plant. The hydroponic plant container includes a body having a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion are defined by the same walls and bottom wherein the second portion is offset to the first portion. The first portion and the second portion have an interior volume that is fluidly coupled wherein the interior volume of the second portion is configured to provide a user access to the interior volume of the first portion. The first portion is provided in a preferred shape of round or square. The first portion further includes opposing lip members that are formed on the upper perimeter edge thereof.

A pot with a base is pivotally connected to, and supported upon a saucer. A cam surface is provided between the saucer and the pot so that rotation of the pot in a first rotary direction relative to the saucer extends the pot from the saucer, and rotation of the pot in a second rotary direction relative to the saucer retracts the pot to the saucer.

A drainage device, system and arrangement for a plant pot, including: (a) a tray adapted to receive drainage fluid from the plant pot; (b) a cover for the drainage tray, the cover being permeable and adapted for a base of the plant pot to stand thereon, further adapted for the drainage fluid from the plant pot to pass there-through, into the tray; (c) an outlet port disposed in a sidewall of the tray; and (d) a drainage tube connected to the outlet port, the drainage tube adapted to provide a conduit for conveying the drainage fluid out of the tray.

A removable-base planter system that permits nesting of pots as a planting grows larger than may be supported by a single planting pot is disclosed. The removable-base planter system has one or more nesting planter pots. A first planter pots having a set of bottom drain holes and a set of side drain holes permitting roots of a planting to grow out of the bottom of a planter pot and into soil of a second planter pot. A removable base is coupled to the second planter pot covering the set of bottom drain holes and the set of side drain holes. The one or more nesting planter pots may be nested in any number of planter pots in which the first planter pot above the second planter pot has been buried into soil of the second planter pot to a distance deep enough to completely cover the set of bottom drain holes and the set of side drain holes and the diameter of a bottom of the first planter pot is smaller than the diameter of a top edge of the second planter pot.

A stackable grow pot system including a plant pot having an inner volume, a plurality of side-walls, and a base including a selectively removeable disc. The selectively removeable disc is configured to be removed to allow plant roots to extend through an aperture. The plant pot is stackable. When stacked, the plant pot provides for volume expansion for growth of a plant and the plant roots through the aperture into a second-plant-pot. The device allows for quick and efficient transplanting.

Disclosed herein is a hydroponic system comprising a water container, a gas pump disposed within the water container, and an air chamber disposed around the gas pump. The hydroponic system also includes an air line extending into the air chamber to drive air into the air chamber water within the water container, and an air bell disposed within the water container to capture the air from the air line, wherein the air bell maximizes the surface area of the water with the captured air. Also disclosed is a system and a method for implementing the system.

An automated farm includes a cloning room and an environmentally controlled nursery with a storage and retrieval system, child storage racks, and child conveyor trays. The automated farm has environmentally controlled grow rooms, environmentally controlled lighted and unlighted flower rooms, a trimming or pruning room, and a harvest room. The automated farm includes specialized parent plant pots with training devices, and tray and trellis systems with rotation plant holders and removable trellis combs. Plant tending robots are configured to clone, trim, prune, harvest, and maintain plants. The automated farm includes a transport mechanism configured to transport the child conveyor trays, the parent plant pots, and the tray and trellis systems between the cloning room, the nursery, the grow rooms, the flower rooms, the trimming or pruning room, and/or the harvest room. The automated farm also includes a farm control and data management system.

A plant growing system includes a base component; and a container disposed on top of the base component. The container includes a container body having a floor surface at a lower end, and a wall having a lower edge coupled to the floor surface and extending upward from the perimeter of the floor surface to an upper edge. A drainage port is disposed through the wall near the lower edge of the wall.